Refractions in Time: A Minkowskian Understanding of Being Dislocated in Time
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https://doi.org/10.65828/vke2ne38Keywords:
Minkowski, time-worlds, temporality, time, traumaAbstract
This paper explores a client's experiences of being-out-of-time, and their location of an agentic and interpersonal version of themselves in an imagined past time-world. I use the work of Eugène Minkowski to explore these experiences and provide an alternative framework for working with temporality to that offered by Heidegger and psychotraumatology.
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